He was a student of the two Stoic, or possibly Peripatetic, philosophers Sosigenes and Herminus, and perhaps of Aristotle of Mytilene.

* Sosigenes the Peripatetic

Sosigenes the Peripatetic was a philosopher living at the end of the 2nd century AD.

Sosigenes is perhaps called " the Peripatetic " only because of his connection with Alexander.

As John Patrick Lynch has written: The other two teachers of Alexander may actually have been the philosophers whom ancient sources called Stoics ; in both cases, Herminos / Sosigenes " the Stoic " have been distinguished from Herminos / Sosigenes " the Peripatetic " only on the grounds that the two latter men were teachers of Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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During this relationship, it was also rumored that Cleopatra introduced Caesar to her astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, who first proposed the idea of leap days and leap years.

There were three main schools, the Chaldaean, the Egyptian, and the Greek ; and to these a fourth was added in our country by Caesar during his dictatorship, who with the assistance of the learned astronomer Sosigenes ( Sosigene perito scientiae eius adhibito ) brought the separate years back into conformity with the course of the sun.

He is often confused with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, who advised Julius Caesar on the reform of the Roman calendar.

Sosigenes of Alexandria was named by Pliny the Elder as the astronomer consulted by Julius Caesar for the design of the Julian calendar.

Sosigenes was portrayed by Hume Cronyn in the 1963 movie Cleopatra.

Based on his results, he proposed to Russia, which at this time used the conventional tropic year according to Sosigenes of Alexandria of exactly 365 days 6 hours ( cf.

At the southern end of the bay entrance is the Rimae Sosignes, named for the crater Sosigenes to the south.

* The Roman encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder, in Natural History II. vi. 39, writes that the planet Mercury can be viewed " sometimes before sunrise and sometimes after sunset, but according to Cidenas and Sosigenes never more than 22 degrees away from the sun ".

* Sosigenes of Alexandria, an astronomer consulted by Julius Caesar for the design of the Julian calendar.

Other rille systems lie in the vicinity, including the Rimae Ritter to the southeast and Rimae Sosigenes to the northeast.

To the east is the rounded Sosigenes.

Sosigenes is a lunar impact crater on the west edge of Mare Tranquillitatis.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Sosigenes.

To the southwest of Maclear is Sosigenes, while farther to the south-southeast is Arago.

The rille system to the north of the crater is designated Rimae Maclear, while the rilles to the south-southwest are named Rimae Sosigenes.

Julius Caesar based his calendar on this Egyptian knowledge of the average solar year supplied by Acoreus and Sosigenes.

The archetype is Sosigenes.

It travels in a lower circle, with a revolution nine days quicker, shining sometimes before sunrise and sometimes after sunset, but according to Cidenas and Sosigenes never more than 22 degrees away from the sun.

c. 60 BC ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school.

Peripatetic nomads, who offer the skills of a craft or trade to those with whom they travel, are most common in industrialized nations.

The works of Aristotle were initially defended by the members of the Peripatetic school, and, later on, by the Neoplatonists, who produced many commentaries on Aristotle's writings.

Other important Peripatetic philosophers who lived during these centuries include Eudemus of Rhodes, Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, and Clearchus of Soli.

Later Neoplatonist writers describe Andronicus, who lived around 50 BCE, as the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school, which would imply that he had two unnamed predecessors.

The most prominent figure of this period is Mulla Sadra who introduced Transcendent Theosophy as a critical philosophy which brought together Peripatetic, Illuminationist and gnostic philosophy along with Ash ' ari and Twelvers theology, the source of which lay in the Islamic revelation and the mystical experience of reality as existence.

The immediate influence of Aristotle's work was felt as the Lyceum grew into the Peripatetic school.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school.

He was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about 58 BC, and was the teacher of Boethus of Sidon, with whom Strabo studied.

When Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus became ill with Quartan fever, Galen felt obliged to treat him " since he was my teacher and I happened to live nearby.

To which the pupil's answer was to be " yes "; as it was to be to the question " Is it true that a Mixt ought to be preferred to a Peripatetic, a Ramist, a Lullian, and the others?

He then attended a Peripatetic philosopher but was put off because the philosopher was too eager for his fee.

The link between political decline and cultural debasement ( as they saw it ) was also made by his fellow Peripatetic and friend Aristoxenus.

Although Tyrannion was also a Peripatetic, he was more relevantly a respected authority on geography, a fact obviously significant, considering Strabo's future contributions to the field.

Theophrastus ( Greek: ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC ), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

335 BC ) of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle.

He also wrote The Peripatetic Philosopher ( 1869 ), a series of amusing papers reprinted from The Australasian ; Long Odds ( London, 1870 ), a novel ; and numerous comedies and pantomimes, the best of, which was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ( Theatre Royal, Melbourne ; Christmas, 1873 ).

From the ninth century onward, owing to Caliph al-Ma ' mun and his successor, Greek philosophy was introduced among the Arabs, and the Peripatetic school began to find able representatives among them ; such were Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), and Ibn Rushd ( Averroës ), all of whose fundamental principles were considered as criticized by the Mutakallamin.

From the ninth century onward, owing to Caliph al-Ma ' mun and his successor, Greek philosophy was introduced among the Persians and Arabs, and the Peripatetic school began to find able representatives among them ; such were Al-Kindi, Farabi, Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), and Ibn Rushd ( Averroës ), all of whose fundamental principles were considered as criticized by the Mutakallamin.

The full title of his work, Noni Marcelli Peripatetici Tubursicensis de Conpendiosa Doctrina ad filium, indicates that he was a Peripatetic philosopher from Thubursicum in Numidia.

Among the Romans, Cicero was thoroughly eclectic, as he united the Peripatetic, Stoic, and New Academic doctrines.

Al-Kindi ( 801 – 873 ) was the first of the Muslim Peripatetic philosophers, and is known for his efforts to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Arab world.